Grateful Shawl. Asymmetric Triangular Shawl Free Pattern.

Grateful Shawl. Asymmetric Triangular Shawl Free Pattern.

Grateful Shawl

My Granny is 70 years old today and I am celebrating here, too far away from her with the free pattern for you! A very simple, but special for me project – Grateful Shawl, made for my Granny back in Russia. I didn’t knit much during my trip, as I felt like I wanted to be 100% with my family and friends, but this simple garter stitch shawl was the perfect companion for long car/train rides, quiet evenings with my family and sleep overs with my girlfriends. I didn’t even notice how I finished it! It stayed with my Granny back in Russia and will remind her of the time we spent together. She recently had a surgery and now is recovering successfully, thus the name of the shawl – Grateful. I am grateful that everything went pretty smoothly, I am grateful for the time we spent together and I am infinitely grateful for her love. She is my true angel.

Project Details

Pattern

The shawl is of classic asymmetric triangular shape. I wrote a quick pattern for it, you are welcome to use it!

Yarn

Hawthorne Fingering by Knit Picks. I am not really into variegated yarn, being more drawn to solid colors, but once in awhile I crave for fun shades and these skeins were perfect for it! The colors are really nice and two shades complimented each other beautifully; the yarn is light and springy. Having said that, I must admit that I doubt that I will ever knit with this yarn again. Don’t get me wrong – each skein was perfect, but the yarn felt too synthetic to me, maybe it’s 20% of polyamide in the content or the feeling of the superwash wool itself, or maybe I am just too spoiled with all the gorgeous natural fibers I got to work with during the last months, but I didn’t enjoy it running through my fingers. Other than that, it was fun to work with.

Design Details

Shape

Asymmetric triangular shawl. I find this shape one of the most versatile ones and it works great with simple stitches and variegated yarns! Also it is very easy to remember the pattern and knit with “closed” eyes.

Texture

This yarn has a great stitch definition and is perfect for garter – the stitches are perfectly even and pop out.

Asymmetric Shawl Free Pattern

The shawl is knit sideways from the corner with the attached 3-stitch I-cord edge that is knit simultaneously with the main fabric to a create smooth and neat edge and avoid finishing later.

Note: What is great about this shawl is that you can use any yarn from your stash. You can also use less or more yarn for your project. I was basically knitting until both skeins were finished, leaving just enough yarn to bind off. I was alternating the skeins every two rows. You are free to knit in solid color or set up your own stripe sequence – stripes/color blocks, the opportunities are really endless!

Needles. 2.5 mm (US 1).

Note: Again the needle size is very flexible. Just go with the one that is the best fit for your yarn and the fabric you want to create.

GAUGE

20 stitches and 48 rows = 4 inches [10 cm] in garter stitch.

Note:The exact gauge is not essential in this project, the most important thing is that you like the fabric in your swatch.

SIZE

Note: The shawl is knit from the corner, so you are in full control of its size and can easily adjust it and stop whenever you feel like it.

ABBREVIATIONS/STITCHES

k – knit

k2tog – knit two together

LH – left hand

p – purl

RH – right hand

RS – right side

sl – slip

ssk – slip, slip, knit

st (sts) – stitch (stitches)

WS – wrong side

wyib – with yarn in back

wyif – with yarn in front

yo – yarn over

INSTRUCTIONS

I am going to walk you through the beginning of the shawl. To see a bigger photo, open it in the new tab.

Lovely! And thanks so much for adding in the photos of how to start the shawl. Shawls have been on my “to-do knitting list” for a while now, but I keep getting frustrated with how to start them and end up just frogging the whole thing. I feel like your simple pattern would be a perfect shawl to start with!

I’m sure that the greatest gift for your granny was spending time with you! Wonderful shawl. The variegated yarn made it look so beautiful. I find yarn that has even a small percentage of polyamide in, to feel very synthetic also. I want it though in socks because it makes them so much durable.

What a beautiful shawl, and it really makes the most of those stunning skeins that can get a bit busy looking in stockinette. Thanks so much for sharing the pattern, and the great tutorial for the tab beginning!

What a beautiful shawl, Alina. My first thought was that I should try this! I mean, if you can knit it with your eyes closed I could surely manage with both of mine open. Yes? Well, I got lost on the first step. Not because of your instructions. But off the bat I am suddenly overwhelmed by terms like provisional cast on and waste yarn. Don’t laugh (or groan) at me. I’m still knitting dishcloths and trying to master the tension of my purl stitches. So… I don’t know if I’ll try to make this shawl, but you have inspired me to figure out what to make with my Hawthorne Fingering yarn I bought a couple of years ago. I love seeing how you combined two colors and I find this inspiring , too – as I have two colors of Hawthorne looking at me forlornly wondering what I’m going to do with them and I think they might just play very nicely together. So glad to see you’re back from your wonderful trip and posting regularly! 🙂

Hello 🙂 So sorry for a late reply. I don’t remember the name of the colors – lost the label :(. But here the photos of the yarn I used – http://giftofknitting.com/from-russia-with-love/ – I am sure you will be able to identify them. Let me know if it helped!!!

Hi! I found your blog while looking for i-cord edge instructions and then this beautiful shawl. Thank you so much for this pattern and your really easy to follow instructions on the edge. One question though, you said that you changed colors every other row – how do you carry with you the yarn not being worked on? Any tips to get it nice?
Thank you!